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The Day My Brain Exploded

by Ashok Rajamani
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After a full-throttle brain bleed at the age of twenty-five, Ashok Rajamani, a first-generation Indian American, had to relearn everything: how to eat, how to walk and to speak, even things as basic as his sexual orientation. With humor and insight, he describes the events of that day (his brain exploded just before his brother’s wedding!), as well as the long, difficult recovery period. In the process, he introduces readers to his family—his principal support group, as well as a constant source of frustration and amazement. Irreverent, coruscating, angry, at times shocking, but always revelatory, his memoir takes the reader into unfamiliar territory, much like the experience Alice had when she fell down the rabbit hole. That he lived to tell the story is miraculous; that he tells it with such aplomb is simply remarkable.
More than a decade later he has finally reestablished a productive artistic life for himself, still dealing with the effects of his injury—life-long half-blindness and epilepsy— but forging ahead as a survivor dedicated to helping others who have suffered a similar catastrophe.
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Publisher: Algonquin Books

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  • Release date: January 22, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9781616201661
  • Release date: January 22, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9781616201661
  • File size: 741 KB
  • Release date: January 22, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9781616201661
  • File size: 838 KB
  • Release date: January 22, 2013
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After a full-throttle brain bleed at the age of twenty-five, Ashok Rajamani, a first-generation Indian American, had to relearn everything: how to eat, how to walk and to speak, even things as basic as his sexual orientation. With humor and insight, he describes the events of that day (his brain exploded just before his brother’s wedding!), as well as the long, difficult recovery period. In the process, he introduces readers to his family—his principal support group, as well as a constant source of frustration and amazement. Irreverent, coruscating, angry, at times shocking, but always revelatory, his memoir takes the reader into unfamiliar territory, much like the experience Alice had when she fell down the rabbit hole. That he lived to tell the story is miraculous; that he tells it with such aplomb is simply remarkable.
More than a decade later he has finally reestablished a productive artistic life for himself, still dealing with the effects of his injury—life-long half-blindness and epilepsy— but forging ahead as a survivor dedicated to helping others who have suffered a similar catastrophe.
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Biography & Autobiography Health & Fitness Nonfiction
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    Publisher:
    Algonquin Books

    Kindle Book
    Release date: January 22, 2013

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781616201661
    Release date: January 22, 2013

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781616201661
    File size: 741 KB
    Release date: January 22, 2013

    PDF ebook
    ISBN: 9781616201661
    File size: 838 KB
    Release date: January 22, 2013

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